In a time when fewer people than ever, it seems, are reading books, the parched publishing industry has wrung some quenching juice from an unexpected source: Dramione fan fiction. “Dramione,” for ...

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Emma Watson, seen at the world premiere of "Little Women" in 2019, played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films and is central to the fan fiction subgenre known as “Dramione.” File Photo by John ...

If you look at two of this summer’s best-selling romantasy novels, you may think you’re seeing double. The covers of “Rose in Chains” by Julie Soto and “The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy” ...

Thanks to the internet, the line between fans and the objects of their fan-love grows thinner with each passing year. Whether it’s through Twitter, fan art, fan fiction, or fan videos, fan culture has ...

Fan fiction — the creation of unsanctioned, unofficially published, new works usually based on popular novels or films — was intentionally never mainstream. There are the legal issues — copyright laws ...

When I was in high school, I experienced a canon event in every young nerd’s life: I was obsessively engaging with a piece of pop culture and found myself thinking, “Wait … why aren’t these characters ...